To believe in ghosts?

For me it was a man, not see through, not floating but he did have a grey film over him. He didn’t interact with me at all other than to look down slightly.

I’d like to believe in ghosts.

I have two experiences but neither are very convincing evidence!

1. I grew up on a farm and had horses. One evening when I was doing horse jobs, I felt like someone was watching me, a shivers down the spine feeling. I put it down to the nights drawing in, and being a bit late that evening, so it was pretty dark and shadowy. I put the horses out and went back to the yard, and heard a sound from the old workhorse stable. It wasn’t being used for horses at the time. It used to be where the farm horses were kept, and it has a raised section between the feed troughs at one side and the muck channel at the other. That raised section is brick with a thin concrete layer over the top and it makes a really distinctive noise when a shod horse is in there. I swear I heard a horse shoe on the floor and a low whickering, exactly the sound of a horse seeing a person and expecting a treat, or a scratch, or to be taken out to the field with the others. I instinctively started to go to the stable before realising I had put all the horses out, there was no one left to be making noise in the stable. It was a really still night so it wasn’t a noise created by the wind.
   of course it could have been overactive imagination on my part, or a sound that carried from a neighbouring farm because it was such a quiet, still night. But I’d like to think it was a ghost horse, and I don’t see any harm in believing that.

2. My parents used to have a dog, which absolutely adored my mum. She (dog) would follow my mum everywhere. She always followed at the same distance, about 3 or 4 strides behind. She died a couple of years before my daughter was born. After we lost her we often heard sounds like claws on the lino from the place behind the sofa where she liked to snooze. We were always turning around expecting to see her before realising she definitely wasn’t back there. After a few weeks we didn’t hear them any more.
   When my daughter was small and just learning to talk, there were two occasions when my mum was carrying her up the garden path to the house, when DD turned and pointed back over my mum’s shoulder, at a point 3-4 strides behind, and said quite clearly “doggy!” when there was nothing there. The dog had died before she was born so she’d never seen the dog following my mum.
   Again, logically, toddlers are not reliable witnesses and have vivid imaginations, but I want to believe that that beloved dog is still happily and adoringly following my mum about, supervising farm jobs as she used to do. My mum hates it being mentioned and says it gives her the creeps!

Years ago I had this freakish vivid dream that I had to tell my grandad his sister had died. It was so real. But my grandad hated his sister and hadn't seen or spoken to her in years, and I'd never even met his sister. I woke up feeling utterly confused as if the dream had actually happened. My DH thought I was bonkers. A few days later I was chatting to my mum on the phone and at the end of the call she said "not that you knew her, but just to let you know that your grandad's sister died the other day".

I believe but my DB the ‘rational scientist’ doesn’t yet can’t prove they don’t exist. It’s a subject that comes up from time to time. He says I’m batshit, I do not care. I haven’t imagined the things I’ve seen, not every unexplained thing is paranormal. I’m really hoping aliens land on his lawn one day 😬

I have a few. The first one was when I was 16 and at home alone. I felt like someone was watching me and could see a figure in the corner of my eye turned around and nothing was there. My mum went to a medium a few days later and told her that there was an old soul attached to the flat we lived in who liked to look out for me when I was home alone.
2nd one was when my son was 5 weeks old, I was sat at my dads when I heard a voice say he's going to die. I knew they were talking about my dad, a week later my dad passed away.
The 3rd one I was at my then boyfriends house went to go to the loo and had that feeling agsin where someone was watching me. For some reason I felt it was an old lost soul like he was looking for someone but couldn't find them. Spoke to my boyfriend about it a few days later he tells me he spoke to his neighbour who said an elderly man used to live there and looked after his wife there. His wife went into a home and he passed away at the home.

It's not spooky but I remember seeing a man in a brown suit sitting on the bottom of my bed when I was about 6 and staying with my great uncle in his 300 year old house.

No interaction, I wasn't afraid, he was just sat there and I fell back to sleep.

I'd love to hear what 'a ghost' is to you?

Is it like seeing a person, and can you interact with them or are they unaware of you?
Or more feeling a spirit? A voice? Poltergeist?

Around 20 years ago , i was working in a care home for the elderly. It was a new building, one of the other members of staff told us she had seen a ( ghost ) . It was a old man wearing trousers a white shirt and braces, he just appeared in the door way to the staff room. She left soon after, i stayed for 7 years , working the night shift , i saw nothing and forgot about it . Then one night , i was on my own in the staff room. I saw something out the corner of my eye, when i looked up. I saw the ( ghost ) that my colleague had described all those years before . I was really spooked , i saw him one more time before i left

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@Tawneylittle was this in Mary Kings Close? When I looked at the OP I immediately thought about the time I was down there, told my DH I could sense someone, just before we went into a room where the tour guide announced that there are stories of the ghost of a child and people leave toys for them and they took us over and there was an old fireplace filled with toys

For me I can’t say I absolutely believe in ghosts, I’ve sensed things in certain places and others I guess have then told me things afterwards which has reinforced what I had felt.

I am agnostic but do love a ghost story and would describe myself as a spiritual person

Only certain people are able to see it

I felt a tug on my sweatshirt and something holding my hand. This was before the person doing the tour tells us there is a little boy ghost called Jack looking for his mum and he sometimes holds hands with a lady on the tour. To tour guide said she knew I felt something as I suddenly turned round as I felt the tug.

No one else felt it and no one was behind me. He held my hand till we were about to go into the vault with the bad ghost and then let go. Don’t feel freaked just a bit sad for him. I always thought I would be really scared if I came across a ghost but this was a really weird calm sadness. I hope he was comforted even for a short time. A lot of people will be cynical but I know what I felt and how I felt.

I haven't personally, but when my Mum was a young girl she used to see a man standing in her bedroom at night. To make matters worse, someone told her that somebody had hanged themselves in that ouse. The last time she saw ,him, he was sitting down and she never saw him again.

I had a night of hell as a newly qualified staff nurse once in Leeds General Infirmary. No apparitions but doors slamming, intense smells and lavender perfume in the linen cupboard, doors stuck and wouldn’t open. We were glad to vacate that ward in the morning!

i do. As a student nurse in an old teaching hospital I had several encounters with ghosts.

@Tawneylittle go on...

Well
after what I and DH experienced in the Edinburgh vaults yesterday. Yes I do

So this is 10000% true. Not embellished. Not exaggerated.

I am really logical, an atheist. Do not believe in anything.

My granny died around 8 years ago (I am English but my daddy, and my granny are Irish) and she lived in Ireland. Anyway when she died, she left her house to my daddy. We go over 8-10 times a year (sometimes together with my DH and kids and mammy, sometimes I’ll go just my DH and kids and vice versa) but for most of the year it is empty.

Anyway, nothing has ever really happened in the house to me, although there is sometimes a feeling of being watched at night, but it’s an old house, in the middle of nowhere so I just put it down to human fear rather than anything actually being there. Until this trip. I had to get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, my bedroom is at one end of the hallway, and the bathroom the other. It’s about 6m long so quite long. Anyway as I go to the bathroom (and this was three nights ago) there was a man in front of the bathroom door. Now, I was half asleep, and genuinely froze out of panic because I just knew this man wasn’t human, he didn’t really react to me although he did look down at me. Weirdly I was terrified but also didn’t get an ‘evil’ vibe from him. After a couple of seconds I came to me senses, screamed and turned the light on and when I turned back round he was gone. Anyway go back to my room, wake my husband up (how I woke no one up I will never know) and made him come with me whilst I had a wee. All fine - finally drifted off and woke up in the morning,

As my daddy comes down I told him and my mammy what had happened. And my daddy goes ‘oh you mean the man in the suit with the hat?’ I said yes (I hadn’t described how he looked) and my daddy says ‘oh he’s been there since I was a little boy you just have to push passed him he won’t follow you into the bathroom, he just walks the hallway’

And that was that. My first, and hopefully last ghost. I’m back in England now and honestly a bit terrified of going back home to Ireland again after that!

I think ‘ghost’ sightings more credible when a few of you see them at the same time.

Neither did I! But I've just found d it under "Other stuff" in the topics list 😊👻👻👻

It's literally 'unreasonable', in that it's not a belief that can be arrived at via reason. Which is not to say anyone shouldn't start woo threads, just that they sit oddly with the concept of reasonableness.

It’s not unreasonable to believe in ghosts, nor to start a woo thread. Unfortunately, as others have noted, some posters will soon be along to spoil the fun!

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